Category: Features
When I get ahold of Alec Reinstein late on Monday night he sounds tired. It’s been a big couple of days for him. Reinstein, better known as Despot, the rapper from Queens who signed to El-P’s Def Jux label in 2004 and has yet to release an album due to his crippling perfectionism, put out […]
Meet B.D. White, the latest subject in our ongoing Q&A series with street artists. Name/Alias: B.D. White Decade you were born in: The ’80s. City you currently live: Brooklyn. Drugs or natural highs? Unnatural drugs are the worst. How did you get your name? My parents. Why do what you do? In the simplest answer, […]
Bessie, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
For “Listen In,” we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Orenda Fink has been part of Omaha’s tight-knit Saddle Creek Records community for years. Both solo and with groups […]
Gordon, Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Listen In” is a feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Brooklyn indie-pop crew Fort Lean makes hooky songs that are as slick as they are […]
Biel, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. For this edition, Meryl Bennett shows us how she made her “Melting Statues” out of old trophies and candle wax. When it comes to my creative process I tend not to plan all that much. […]
Quaalude (“kway-lewd”) or methaqualone (“meth-uh-kway-loan”), is something most people are only familiar with from movies and the news. It’s back in the spotlight because Bill Cosby, as part of an on-going rape scandal, admitted in a deposition to date raping a woman with them. The drug is an infamous downer, a powerful one, a highly […]
Apoc, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
